Live sound controlling MIDI?

[AudioJunky]

Are there any plugins/programs that will take the live sound of let's say, a saxophone and double the exact notes being played with MIDI sounds?

[Gentleman Jim]

Logic does this, they call it Audio to MIDI. It's monophonic only, so a saxophone should work well.

[0-it-hz]

WIDI vst will do this. So will antares KANTOS... sort of. WIDI is polyphonic but it's easily confused. The new melodyne DNA plug-in will also do something like this.

[AudioJunky]

Can logic take a live audio signal and sync it with midi? I'm looking to do this for performance purposes.

[ashcat_lt]

Super-Eel does it.

I would trust my Roland GI-10 first in a live environment, though. Then you don't have to worry that your operating system will change its mind in the middle of the performance.

You know, decide to do something else for awhile, maybe even just restart for the fun of it...

[btswire]

Depending on how in depth you want to go, you might also want to check out Max MSP. Limitless possiblities...

[sparky]

Logic has a mode called "Human Sync" where it will try to slave the tempo to auto-detected beats on an audio object. Theoretically, you could use this to make logic follow the tempo of a saxaphone in real time, but... I doubt it would actually work unless the sax player was like very specifically playing to it, like playing a bari sax and playing a loud low note every quarter-note. Normal playing is going to mess it up.

That said, you could certainly have a foot controller or something and have a sax player tap tempo the whole time. That's still a sloppy sync but it might actually be passable.

[stevedood]

Yeah, I had some success with SuperEel when I asked about this awhile back.
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